The half-acre lot is at the corner of Altamont Avenue and West Moore Street. (Mike Platania photo)
The developer behind a significant part of Chesterfield’s Springline at District 60 project is eyeing a piece of Scott’s Addition.
Collins Enterprises recently filed plans to construct a four-story apartment building at 1600 Altamont Ave.
With 46 planned units, the project would be quite a bit smaller than the two projects Collins is working on at Springline at District 60 in the Southside, where it’s nearing completion of a 300-unit mixed-use building and is preparing to break ground on an additional 245 units.
Arthur Collins, who leads the Connecticut-based development firm, declined to comment on their Scott’s Addition plans.
The Altamont site is currently home to a one-story building that was once the home of The Big Kitchen, a drive-thru prepared meals concept from the restaurant group behind Tazza Kitchen. The 2,400-square-foot space has been vacant in recent years and marketed for lease.
A conceptual drawing of the building. (City documents)
Plans filed with the city show that Collins is looking to clear the half-acre site and build a new, four-story building with 37 one bedroom/studio units and nine two-bedroom units. Much of the first floor would be a 38-space parking garage.
The property is owned by Boo Crunch LLC, which bought it for $805,000 in 2016. Philip C. King of investment firm The Baker Cos. is listed in state records as manager of the LLC and listed as a representative of the property owner in plans filed with the city, however King said Thursday that he does not own the property.
The city most recently assessed the parcel at $2.2 million, and the land’s B-7 zoning allows Collins to build the development by-right.
A pair of local firms fill out the development team, with Winks Snowa Architects as the designer, Timmons Group the engineer and Baker Development Resources the planning consultant.
Another, larger residential development is in the works a few blocks to the west along Moore Street. Earlier this year Hoffman & Associates bought the whole city block bound by Moore, Norfolk, Highpoint and MacTavish for over $13 million. The prolific D.C. developer is planning to build more than 360 apartments plus commercial space on the parcel, which is currently primarily a parking lot.
The half-acre lot is at the corner of Altamont Avenue and West Moore Street. (Mike Platania photo)
The developer behind a significant part of Chesterfield’s Springline at District 60 project is eyeing a piece of Scott’s Addition.
Collins Enterprises recently filed plans to construct a four-story apartment building at 1600 Altamont Ave.
With 46 planned units, the project would be quite a bit smaller than the two projects Collins is working on at Springline at District 60 in the Southside, where it’s nearing completion of a 300-unit mixed-use building and is preparing to break ground on an additional 245 units.
Arthur Collins, who leads the Connecticut-based development firm, declined to comment on their Scott’s Addition plans.
The Altamont site is currently home to a one-story building that was once the home of The Big Kitchen, a drive-thru prepared meals concept from the restaurant group behind Tazza Kitchen. The 2,400-square-foot space has been vacant in recent years and marketed for lease.
A conceptual drawing of the building. (City documents)
Plans filed with the city show that Collins is looking to clear the half-acre site and build a new, four-story building with 37 one bedroom/studio units and nine two-bedroom units. Much of the first floor would be a 38-space parking garage.
The property is owned by Boo Crunch LLC, which bought it for $805,000 in 2016. Philip C. King of investment firm The Baker Cos. is listed in state records as manager of the LLC and listed as a representative of the property owner in plans filed with the city, however King said Thursday that he does not own the property.
The city most recently assessed the parcel at $2.2 million, and the land’s B-7 zoning allows Collins to build the development by-right.
A pair of local firms fill out the development team, with Winks Snowa Architects as the designer, Timmons Group the engineer and Baker Development Resources the planning consultant.
Another, larger residential development is in the works a few blocks to the west along Moore Street. Earlier this year Hoffman & Associates bought the whole city block bound by Moore, Norfolk, Highpoint and MacTavish for over $13 million. The prolific D.C. developer is planning to build more than 360 apartments plus commercial space on the parcel, which is currently primarily a parking lot.
First floor mostly garage? If they’re going to raze the interesting buildings in SA, you should at least put commercial uses on the ground floor.
How is the vacant-equivalent of a Brew-thru an “interesting” building? I’m all for keeping unique architecture and I wish this development had ground floor retail. However this project is a better use of the space than what’s there now.
Parking is at a premium Scott’s Addition. More should be included at the ground level of apartment or condominium buildings.
Parking is a huge issue in SA, especially if you’re not from the city. Sure, city folks can take the Pulse bus but people from the counties won’t or can’t. I have friends that drove around for over an hour trying to find a parking space, even many blocks away from the restaurant they wanted to patronize and they gave up and went elsewhere. Businesses in the area can’t sustain themselves on local foot traffic alone, they need customers from outside the neighborhood too. Apartment and condo dwellers have vehicles and so do their friends who visit them; parking does… Read more »
While I have never been unable to find a space in Scott’s Addition, and I’m there almost daily, I agree with you, it needs a central parking facility for people from the counties.
The city needs to be available for them, it’s good for all concerned
It’s difficult to find parking on a regular Friday or Saturday, but it’s a nightmare when there’s a festival or even during the Summer.
Oh wow what a bold, new concept for that neighborhood… ::eyeroll:: Adding more vehicles to already-congested streets, without contributing anything of real value to the neighborhood except towards raising property taxes even more exponentially than they already are. The Tazza Kitchen was a novel concept that was sadly tanked by the pandemic, but I’m not the only one in the area that would rather see something like that instead of another soulless clone of those other hideous apartment boxes that now define the area. What’s the point of living in Scott’s Addition if these parasitic developers keep destroying everything good… Read more »
What a fresh, new, innovative idea for the neighborhood, huh?!
Good to see more infill housing being built. Despite what people think Scott’s Addition is still pretty empty by urban standards.
How do these developers make there projections and estimates work when they know the occupicy rates will be extremely low? Some of these places you’ll have new Apt units sitting for years.
because the occupancy rates are in fact extremely high. It would be interesting to see a bizsense article on it, but last I heard everything in Scott’s was fully rented (data from last year)
Another generic apartment block. Richmond and Henricobarecbeginning to resemble a corner strip mall. My boyfriend tried to eat at Moore street cafe the othere but retreated because there was zero parking. We’ll stay out in the county.
They could have at least been more creative with the architecture. Other than that it’s ok.